CHURCH BUILDING
Stavros tou Agiasmati Church
Platanistasa · Greek Orthodox
- Locality
- Platanistasa
- Tradition
- Greek Orthodox
- Type of place
- CHURCH BUILDING
- Coordinates
- 34.97938° N, 33.04675° E
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History: Stavros tou Agiasmati Church
Stavros tou Agiasmati, the Church of the Holy Cross of Agiasmati, belongs to Platanistasa, a village at about 940 metres on the northern side of the Troodos, in the Pitsilia region. It is one of the ten Painted Churches in the Troodos Region inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. UNESCO singles out its late-fifteenth-century paintings for combining Byzantine art harmoniously with the local painting tradition, with some elements of Western influence.
An interesting detail
Platanistasa was among the villages granted in 1474 to a relative of Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus.